mekka okereke :verified: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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Shout out to everyone reading this paper, not understanding it, and drawing the wrong conclusions.🤷🏿‍♂️

nature.com/articles/s41586-026

Switching to Twitter's algorithmic feed from chronological, only shifts political attitudes to the right *for people susceptible to far-right nonsense.*

Because they start following far-right dudes🤡

Switching back to chronological doesn't undo the far-right shift...

Because the people affected don't unfollow the far-right dudes. And they don't start following more normal people🤡

Again, Black folk use Twitter the *most*. Black people get exposed to far-right dudes but are the *least* far-right

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

www.nature.com · Nature

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Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social
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RE: hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116

Mekka's take on the methodological implications on the (lack of) cross-tabs on this study are on point, but there's another thing to look at here: our definition of "platforming". So much discussion of "platforming" is conducted from the perspective of "are these ideas dangerous, is it OK to let people hear these dangerous ideas". That's not what is happening. The speech acts involved are not "conveying ideas" and letting people analyze them.

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